Word: puff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoke or not to smoke? For Fidel Castro, that is no longer the question. The Cuban President, who turned 60 last month, gave up his beloved stogies a year ago. Last week he urged others to follow his lead. "I haven't taken a single puff since last Aug. 26," Castro said. "I don't miss it, and I feel better...
...Dennis Levine, the ex-investment whiz who has already pleaded guilty to a variety of insider-trading charges filed by the U.S. Government. Litton's contention: that in November 1982, while Levine was employed by Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb (now merged into Shearson Lehman), his illicit trading activities helped puff up the price of stock in Itek, an electronics firm, just as Litton was preparing to buy the company. Shearson officials have described the Litton damage claim as "without merit...
...Tapas leave you hanging. They give you a little bit so you have to have some more," says Fernando Martinez, a Mexican who works as a restaurant chef in Washington but snacks off-hours on miniportions of mussels in vinaigrette sauce, meat-filled puff pastries, and avocado stuffed with shrimp at El Bodegon, a Spanish restaurant in the capital. Jose Lopez, one of the owners of the successful El Bodegon, reports that tapas got off to a slow start in % Washington three years ago. "The biggest problem was people not knowing about tapas," he says...
McKellen, giving perhaps the best performance of his career, is Mr. Puff, a hyperkinetic and vaguely Celtic specialist in panegyric, which is to say, a forerunner of the modern public relations man. From touting others, he has turned to writing his own epic tragedy, The Spanish Armada. At a rehearsal, everything goes wrong. The actors drop whole swatches of dialogue as turgid and unplayable. The bit players upstage the leads, who swat them. A sword fight is a model of slapstick ineptitude. A Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs...
...women's sailing team turned in a mediocore performance this weekend, placing sixth in the Powder Puff Trophy in Rhode Island...